Startup

Serhiy Taran, a resident of Kharkiv, created a dating service for IT specialists, DateCoders. The idea to create such a product was born from the desire to help a developer friend who could not find «his person» in ordinary dating applications.

Standing in queues is probably one of those things that annoys people of any age, gender, temperament, nationality and social status. Therefore, the introduction of an electronic queue in itself has become a truly significant invention for impatient representatives of humanity. Now an electronic queue in almost any public or private institution with a large flow of visitors is considered more the norm than some kind of know-how.

Yulia Buglak is the founder of one of the most unusual Ukrainian startups that clearly stood out at this year’s IT Arena. Fiskin makes luxury accessories from fish skin (!) — in particular, the startup’s website presents women’s bags, cardholders, bracelets and watch straps made from this unusual material for the general public. This is not a cheap pleasure — for example, a fish skin bag will cost over 66 thousand UAH, and a cardholder — over 7,000 UAH, but the brand is positioned as luxury. To learn more about the startup’s origins, its development, prospects, and customers — we spoke with the founder of Fiskin.

Ukrainian startup VUZOLL has taken on the digitalization of the service sector, creating intelligent robot assistants capable of replacing reception and automating routine business processes. This product is the first in Ukraine to combine artificial intelligence, robotics and business process automation. We tell you what VUZOLL robot assistants can do.

As the startup competition at this year’s IT Arena showed, the integration of technological solutions based on artificial intelligence into the field of psychology is more than timely. Especially in a warring country that is smoothly approaching the fourth anniversary of full-scale war and has been fighting the enemy on the battlefield for more than 11 years.